[Salon] China Has Edge Over US on Much More Than AI Models

[Chas Freeman <cwfresidence@gmail.com>]

https://sputnikglobe.com/20250128/china-has-edge-over-us-on-much-more-than-ai-models-1121511181.html

1/28/25

China Has Edge Over US on Much More Than AI Models

A comprehensive, 20-year study released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in 2024 calculated that China dominates the US in 57 of 64 critical technologies, up from just three in 2007.

The US, which led in a whopping 60 sectors in 2007, now leads in just seven.

ASPI based its rankings on cumulative innovative and high-impact research published and patented by national universities, labs, companies and state agencies.

Australian Strategic Policy Institute figures showing the global research share in advanced cyber, AI and autonomy, electronic warfare, hypersonic and counter-hypersonic capabilities, quantum technologies and undersea capabilities.

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advanced integrated circuit design and fabrication

high-specification machining processes

advanced aircraft engines

drones, swarming and collaborative robots

advanced radiofrequency communication

Excerpt of Australian Strategic Policy Institute report on global leaders in advanced materials and manufacturing.

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natural language processing

ASPI credits President Xi Jinping’s ‘Made in China 2025’ plan for the infusion of “massive direct state funding for R&D in key technology,” saying strategic investments already underway were turned into a plan to achieve “technological supremacy.”

Besides research spending, Xi’s strategy has seen “large and complimentary investments…into industrial policy, upgrading supply chains and the manufacturing sector,” the think tank says.

Global leaders on AI, computing and communications, biotech, gene tech and vaccines, according to calculations from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

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